2020
DOI: 10.1111/sed.12781
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Syn‐rift mass flow generated ‘tectonofacies’ and ‘tectonosequences’ of the Kingston Peak Formation, Death Valley, California, and their bearing on supposed Neoproterozoic panglacial climates

Abstract: The Kingston Peak Formation of the Pahrump Group in the Death Valley region of the Basin and Range Province, USA, is the thick (over 3 km) mixed siliciclastic-carbonate fill of a long-lived structurally-complex Neoproterozoic rift basin and is recognized by some as a key 'climatostratigraphic' succession recording panglacial Snowball Earth events. A facies analysis of the Kingston Peak Formation shows it to be largely composed of 'tectonofacies' which are subaqueous mass flow deposits recording cannibalization… Show more

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“…Hence, diamictites have often been regarded as tillites, or at least as having originated from glaciogenic processes, without thorough consideration of other possible interpretations. This inference has often been based on hypotheses of palaeoclimatic interpretations (see e.g., Jensen & Wulff-Pedersen, 1997;Arnaud & Eyles, 2004;Eyles & Januszczak, 2007;Carto & Eyles, 2012;Kennedy & Eyles, 2021), followed by association and interpretation of diamictite deposits displaying matrix-supported clasts (note: some geologists also label mixtures of sediment which are clast-supported as diamictite), striated pavements and presence of supposed dropstones as glaciogenic. If a research area was originally considered to have been influenced by glaciers, the geomorphological, depositional and deformational data from nearby outcrops were often, by default, interpreted on the basis of that scenario.…”
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“…Hence, diamictites have often been regarded as tillites, or at least as having originated from glaciogenic processes, without thorough consideration of other possible interpretations. This inference has often been based on hypotheses of palaeoclimatic interpretations (see e.g., Jensen & Wulff-Pedersen, 1997;Arnaud & Eyles, 2004;Eyles & Januszczak, 2007;Carto & Eyles, 2012;Kennedy & Eyles, 2021), followed by association and interpretation of diamictite deposits displaying matrix-supported clasts (note: some geologists also label mixtures of sediment which are clast-supported as diamictite), striated pavements and presence of supposed dropstones as glaciogenic. If a research area was originally considered to have been influenced by glaciers, the geomorphological, depositional and deformational data from nearby outcrops were often, by default, interpreted on the basis of that scenario.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Many researchers refer to the hypothesis of Snowball Earth, for which the Gowganda Formation is an important area in worldwide correlations (Young, 2013(Young, , 2014. However, the evidence for Snowball Earth scenarios is equivocal, as has been confirmed by detailed dating of outcrops of Neoproterozoic (Le Heron et al, 2020) and Palaeoproterozoic strata, including the Gowganda Formation (Kump et al, 2013;Young, 2014Young, , 2019, by the geochemical record (Bahlburg & Dobrzinski, 2011;Bristow et al, 2011;Grotzinger et al, 2011;Zimmermann et al, 2011), including (mainly for Neoproterozoic and younger strata) ikaites/glendonites -the minerals that are supposed to be stable only in cold temperatures (Aspler et al, 2001;Hoffman, 2013;Fairchild et al, 2016), but are documented to have formed in temperate and even tropical waters (Popov et al, 2019) and, lastly, by numerous studies of the geology of Precambrian diamictites (e.g., Eyles, 1993;Molén, 2017;Kennedy et al, 2019;Kennedy & Eyles, 2021).…”
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“…The clast clusters are interpreted as sedimentary pellets (Tomkins et al, 2008). Although there is a tradition of recognising "outrunner clasts" from debris flows where an ice-rafted mechanism is not appealing (Kennedy and Eyles, 2020), this process cannot explain granule and pebble-sized clasts in laminated dolomicrites. This is because although hydroplaning beneath much larger-scale "outrunner blocks" e.g.…”
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